Faculty profile
Karen Foster
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Latest papers
Re-centering labour in local food: local washing and the growing reliance on permanently temporary migrant farmworkers in Nova Scotia.
Agriculture and human values · 2022
Study protocol for CELLAR (COVID-related Eating Limitations and Latent dietary effects in the Atlantic Region): population-based observational study to monitor dietary intakes and purchasing during COVID-19 in four Atlantic Canadian provinces.
BMJ open · 2022
'It's just a social thing': drug use, friendship and borderwork among marginalized young people.
The International journal on drug policy · 2013 · first author
Latest funding
- $24,307
Épistémologie et psychologie de la foi chez les penseurs franciscains des années 1280-1320
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $599,088
Common Ground Canada Network
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $198,372
Work-Life in Canada: portraits of continuity and change in the meaning of work
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Re-centering labour in local food: local washing and the growing reliance on permanently temporary migrant farmworkers in Nova Scotia.
Fitting E, Bryan C, Foster K, Ellsworth JWM
Study protocol for CELLAR (COVID-related Eating Limitations and Latent dietary effects in the Atlantic Region): population-based observational study to monitor dietary intakes and purchasing during COVID-19 in four Atlantic Canadian provinces.
Mah CL, Foster K, Jago E, Hajizadeh M, Luongo G, Taylor N, Fuller D, Yi Y, Esan OT, Lukic R, Clarke M, Wranik WD, Brimblecombe JK, Peeters A
'It's just a social thing': drug use, friendship and borderwork among marginalized young people.
Foster K, Spencer D
Épistémologie et psychologie de la foi chez les penseurs franciscains des années 1280-1320
Principal investigators: Piché, David
Keywords: Études médiévales; philosophie; édition critique; épistémologie; psychologie philosophique; théologiens franciscains
Common Ground Canada Network
Principal investigators: Foster, Karen
Work-Life in Canada: portraits of continuity and change in the meaning of work
Principal investigators: Dorow, Sara K.
Keywords: meaning of work; work-life; intersectional life course; multimedia narrative; digital humanities; Indigenous methodologies; minimal computing
Work-Life in Canada: portraits of continuity and change in the meaning of work
Principal investigators: Dorow, Sara K.
Keywords: meaning of work; work-life; intersectional life course; multimedia narrative; digital humanities; Indigenous methodologies; minimal computing
CREATE for Leaders in Energy Sustainability
Principal investigators: Freund, Michael MS
Keywords: advanced battery materials; electrolysis; energy grids; hqp training; internships; photovoltaics; socio-economic analysis; solar fuels; sustainable energy
Dietary change during COVID-19: A population-based study in Atlantic Canada to build evidence for government economic and social policy responses
Principal investigators: Mah, Catherine L
Keywords: Atlantic Canada; Consumption And Consumer Behaviour; Covid-19; Diet-Related Risk; Economic And Social Policy Responses; Nutritional Epidemiology; Observational Research; Population Health; Population Nutrition
What is the Best Policy Mix for Diverse Canadian Families with Young Children? Re-imagining Family Policies
Keywords: family policies; childcare; parental leave; employment policies; family research; feminist methodologies and epistemologies; cross-comparative research; community research
Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada
Principal investigators: Foster, Karen
Keywords: rural; economic development; social change; generations; inequality; discourse analysis; survey methods; qualitative interviews; case studies; mixed-methods; Atlantic Canada
Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada
Principal investigators: Foster, Karen
Meeting the Autism Housing Challenge in Nova Scotia
Principal investigators: Foster, Karen R.
Keywords: housing; social policy; inequality; disability; autism; rural; urban; survey
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Mohammad Hajizadeh and Yanqing Yi: 3 shared papers
- Mohammad Hajizadeh and Karen Foster: 1 shared paper
- Yanqing Yi and Karen Foster: 1 shared paper
- Karen Foster and Elizabeth Fitting: 1 shared paper
- Karen Foster and Catherine Bryan: 1 shared paper
- Elizabeth Fitting and Catherine Bryan: 1 shared paper
- Other studies in human society
- Children, Family
- Anthropology
- Community Health and Epidemiology
- Faculty of Medicine
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